Cirrhimuraena
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Cirrhimuraena is a genus of eel
s in the snake eel family Ophichthidae. It currently contains the following species:
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Eels are an order of fish, which consists of four suborders, 20 families, 111 genera and approximately 800 species. Most eels are predators...
s in the snake eel family Ophichthidae. It currently contains the following species:
- Cirrhimuraena calamus (Günther, 1870)
- Cirrhimuraena cheilopogon (BleekerPieter BleekerPieter Bleeker was a Dutch medical doctor and ichthyologist, famous for his work on the fishes of East Asia – Atlas Ichthyologique des Orientales Neerlandaises – which was published 1862–1877....
, 1860) - Cirrhimuraena chinensis KaupJohann Jakob KaupJohann Jakob Kaup was a German naturalist.-Biography:He was born at Darmstadt. After studying at Göttingen and Heidelberg he spent two years at Leiden, where his attention was specially devoted to the amphibians and fishes. He then returned to Darmstadt as an assistant in the grand ducal museum,...
, 1856 - Cirrhimuraena inhacae (J. L. B. Smith, 1962) (Inhaca fringelip)
- Cirrhimuraena oliveri (Seale, 1910)
- Cirrhimuraena orientalis K. H. Nguyen, 1993
- Cirrhimuraena paucidens HerreAlbert William HerreAlbert William Christian Theodore Herre was an American ichthyologist and lichenologist.Herre was born in 1868 in Toledo, Ohio....
& MyersGeorge S. MyersDr. George Sprague Myers spent most of his career at Stanford University, where he was one of the leading American ichthyologists of the twentieth century. He served as the editor of Stanford Ichthyological Bulletin as well as president of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists...
, 1931 - Cirrhimuraena playfairii (Günther, 1870) (Fringelip snake-eel)
- Cirrhimuraena tapeinoptera (BleekerPieter BleekerPieter Bleeker was a Dutch medical doctor and ichthyologist, famous for his work on the fishes of East Asia – Atlas Ichthyologique des Orientales Neerlandaises – which was published 1862–1877....
, 1863 - Cirrhimuraena yuanding W. Q. Tang & C. G. Zhang, 2003